Keke Palmer

About

Actress who played the lead role in the 2006 film Akeelah and the Bee. Other film credits include Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Joyful Noise, Rags and Hustlers. In 2015, she became a regular on the Fox series Scream Queens and in 2016, she portrayed Marty in the live broadcast of Grease on Fox entitled Grease Live!

Before Fame

She performed at the Save the Music Battle of the High School Marching Bands in 2006, and released her debut album, So Uncool, in 2007.

Trivia

She starred in the Nickelodeon sitcom True Jackson, VP and became the fourth highest paid child star on television at the time. She voiced Peaches in the Ice Age franchise and voiced the characters Aisha and Piff on season 6 of the Nickelodeon series Winx Club. She's also the host of her own Snapchat show Keepin' It Real.

Family Life

Keke's parents, Sharon and Larry Palmer, moved to California in the early 2000s so that she could pursue her acting career. She has a sister named Lawrencia. On December 3rd 2022, she announced that she was expecting her first child with her boyfriend Darius Daulton Jackson. She welcomed a boy in February 2023. Her and Darius split later that same year.